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Springworks offers local, decentralized lettuce option

Springworks of Lisbon, Maine, the state’s first and largest commercial aquaponics greenhouse operation, opened an additional 40,000 feet of space...

4 years ago 3 minute read

High inflation doesn’t deliver higher returns to growers

Consumers are seeing inflation from many industries including food. U.S. government figures show that wholesale food prices surged 2.6 percent...

4 years ago 1 minute read

ProduceIQ: Industry prices struggle as berries lead decline

Overall market prices sink lower again. Berries and stone fruit continue to slide during a time of year notorious for...

4 years ago 4 minute read

Nutritional psychiatry boosts fresh produce

One new trend: nutritional psychiatry. Because, guess what? Your diet affects your mood and your mental health, we learn from...

4 years ago 4 minute read

How to build a socially responsible business

To determine how to build a socially responsible business, we first need to determine what a “socially responsible business” is....

4 years ago 4 minute read

Billions in mystery from USDA

Last week USDA said it plans to invest $1 billion to support and build up the country’s food bank network,...

4 years ago 3 minute read

Back to work: Watch your messages

Hey, gang! Fun’s over! Time to get back to work! It is in questionable taste at best to refer to...

4 years ago 3 minute read

ProduceIQ: Prices whiplash as Georgia volume knocks

After only a moment of record high prices, markets begin descending. The overall industry’s price decline has two major drivers:...

4 years ago 4 minute read

U.S. exporters have a new opportunity in the UK – if they want it

At the start of the year, the United Kingdom finally reached an agreement with the rest of the European Union...

4 years ago 4 minute read

How to slice a mango

Evidently in the Philippines, there is a saying that a girl is not ready for marriage until she knows how...

4 years ago 4 minute read

ProduceIQ: Prices soar for Memorial Day

Memorial Day pull sends prices skyward. The industry is looking at the highest week #21 prices of all time. Shaped...

4 years ago 4 minute read

GRAPHIC: Low lettuce volumes headed into summer

The following graphic was produced by Agtools Inc. BB #:355102 to show that lettuce volume is at the lowest level...

4 years ago 1 minute read

Familiar patterns reemerge across retail grocery

May 26, 2021 — With Memorial Day right around the corner, Category Partners decided to take a look back at...

4 years ago 4 minute read

Technomic index shows steady improvement for U.S. foodservice

CHICAGO, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Technomic released the April TIndex (Technomic Index), an index that provides a benchmark to...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Shareholders bear the risk, deserve the reward (or loss)

The Wall Street Journal reported in its May 27 edition that major bank CEOs were called to task by Congress...

4 years ago 2 minute read

Causes of the labor shortage a complex mix

“Complaining that people don’t want to work because they could make more on unemployment is a funny way of admitting...

4 years ago 4 minute read

ProduceIQ: Peaches spared as La Niña brings drought to SW

Grape volume falters slightly in the Coachella Valley. In response, prices hurdled upwards, +44 percent. In the summer months, the...

4 years ago 4 minute read

George W. Bush pushes immigration reform

Which is the latest organization to speak out in favor of immigration reform? The George W. Bush Institute, a conservative...

4 years ago 4 minute read

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